EcoGnomix
Skip · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 8.1h 13.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 310 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $7.99 (60% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 44 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
A quirky mix of roguelite and city builder. Build a lively little city above, by looting mystical caves with a team of gnomes below! Use multiple runs to unlock upgrades and abilities to help your gnomes venture deeper into the dangerous underground.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 570, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
19 discounts in the 2 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Inkbound ($29.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Megaloot ($9.99, scores 29).
More about EcoGnomix
4 of the 215 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to July 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
98% start to 5% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Cute short puzzle roguelike. It's a bit hard, but I enjoyed the challenge very much. The biomes have very different mechanics and I had to change my strategy quite a bit. I also played the game during 1.0 where it was A LOT harder and I managed anyway so I don't get people complaining about the current difficulty. On that note.... why not bring 1.0 back while keeping the bans for the gnome upgrades. The second biome...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Not the best, but entertaining for a bit and short enough to not overstay its welcome. The "supply chain" stuff is window dressing, but there are some fun builds to try with the different gnome upgrades.
It's pretty glitchy, especially the last of the three caves, and not terribly well-balanced. There's some good stuff there, but in the end not enough to outweigh the bad.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
EcoGnomix scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2473640/ecognomixReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.